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CompTIA Security+ Certification (SY0-701) Bootcamp

Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Intermediate content levelIntermediate

Best way to break into the cybersecurity field +AI

Course outcomes:

  • Know the tools you need to be a success as a security professional
  • Understand the major cybersecurity requirements of any organization
  • Understand controls and how to categorize them as a defender
  • Recognize secure and insecure network protocols
  • Adjust a network diagram to include cybersecurity controls
  • Review a mission and identify the cybersecurity failures

Course description:

CompTIA Security+ is the leading, globally recognized certification for entry-level cybersecurity professionals and is one of the best ways to break into this exciting field.

Join expert Dean Bushmiller to get a two-day comprehensive review of what you need to know to pass version SY0-701 of the exam. Through presentations, discussions, practice questions, and hands-on lab exercises, you’ll gain a broad foundation in the subject matter of each of the five domains covered by the exam, along with practical information about the exam process and important study and test-taking strategies.

NOTE: With today’s registration, you’ll be signed up for both sessions. Although you can attend either of the sessions individually, we recommend participating in both.

What you’ll learn and how you can apply it

  • Build a personal study plan for the exam
  • Review a network architecture and the core services and devices
  • Identify poorly placed controls
  • Determine placement of controls in a network
  • Given a scenario, determine what improvements can be made to support the mission in a financially prudent manner

This live event is for you because...

  • You’re beginning your career as a cybersecurity professional.
  • You need a plan for passing the SY0-701 exam.
  • You want to improve your cybersecurity skills.

Prerequisites

Recommended preparation:

  • Read instructor’s GitHub page
  • Set up lab environment from GitHub
  • Open an AWS account (to get the full lab environment without installing software locally, this is optional if you want to follow along with the hands-on portion of the course)

Recommended follow-up:

Schedule

The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.

Day 1

Preparing for class (25 minutes)

  • Presentation: Pomodoro technique; how to get the most from class, the interface, and the recording; mind maps; AWS lab setup or local; Mentimeter; timeline; general techniques in deliberate practice; tools; rent or build your own
  • Hands-on exercise: Navigate shared content on O’Reilly and GitHub
  • Q&A

Overview of Security+ exam (20 minutes)

  • Presentation: SY0-701 as of Nov. 2023; How hard is the exam?; Security+ value in the market; career path and job description post-certification; how to sign up for the exam
  • Q&A
  • Break

General security concepts (90 minutes)

  • Presentation: Confidentiality, integrity, and availability; authentication, authorization, and accounting; zero trust and other security models; physical security; change management; using cryptology
  • Hands-on exercise: What is wrong with this security?
  • Break

Threats, vulnerabilities, and mitigations (80 minutes)

  • Presentation: Threat vectors; protocols; vulnerability categories; indicators of malicious activity; controls
  • Hands-on exercise: Explore threats and controls

Lab, quiz, and study (25 minutes)

  • Presentation: Lab setup for day 2; study process; quiz sign-up
  • Hands-on exercises: Set up lab; take quiz
  • Q&A

Day 2

Security architecture (70 minutes)

  • Presentation: Assets, protocols, process, and implementations; security principle application; resilience and recovery
  • Hands-on exercise: Explore protocols
  • Break

Security operations (75 minutes)

  • Presentation: Protocol and device protection; process of securing assets; security tools and techniques; vulnerability management; logging and monitoring; automation;
  • identity and access management
  • Hands-on exercise: Explore controls flow
  • Break
  • Security program management and oversight (75 minutes)
  • Presentation: Governance; risk; compliance; policy; audit or security
  • Hands-on exercise: Risk I heard
  • Break

Components of your plan (30 minutes)

  • Presentation: How to get more of everything; deliberate practice; lab-building for after class
  • Hands-on exercise: Explore exam-level questions
  • Q&A

Your Instructor

  • Dean Bushmiller

    Dean Bushmiller consults on cybersecurity, incident response, and penetration testing and is using AI to build and secure learning platforms. He’s been teaching cybersecurity since 1999, has over 1,000 hours of recorded cybersecurity training, and a lifetime instructor approval rating of over 90%. He has also achieved more than 36 major cybersecurity certifications and passed over 100 certification exams.

    Dean built the full library of NICE framework knowledge statements, which includes over 600 basic, intermediate, and advanced cybersecurity topics in an easy one-hour online format. Though he’s not a member of the military, he has had the honor to train the US military since 1999. In recognition for outstanding service in the information assurance field, he has received eight mission coins.

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Skill covered

CompTIA Security+